Usually, Thursday is How Stuff Works day, but today I saw some sad news on the crawler at the bottom of the Good Morning America screen. Canada--and the world--has lost a great Canadian singer: Stompin' Tom Connors has gone to that Great Hockey Arena in the Sky.
In 1972, Stompin' Tom wrote and began performing "The Hockey Song," which is just about the only song of his heard outside of Canada. The song is divided into three verses, each representing a period of hockey. He was known to use the home team's name as the game winner when he toured.
Tom got his nickname for the rythmic stomping of his left boot while he played his guitar and sang. After he received numerous complaints about damaged stage floors, he began brining his own plywood "stompin' boards." So great was Canada's love for him, he was able to auction off several of these boards for charitable causes. Of course, each one had a hole stomped straight through.
Sadly, this leaves us only with the wildly-suited blowhard, Don Cherry as a (gulp) recognized-by-Americans representative of Canada. Having listened to Don do more than his fair share of commentary on hockey and anything else he blurts out, this is, indeed, a sad day for Canada. He famously (?) complained that Alexander Ovechkin's hockey goal celebratory one-footed skate was "not the Canadian way." DUH! AO is RUSSIAN.
If you dare, click here for the funniest (and probably most offensive) 45 seconds of Don Cherry. (SFW...though I can't speak for the comments.) Hint: The Handsome One and I still get the giggles when we say, "...yappin' away there..."
Ah well, please remember:
The good ol' hockey game,
is the best game you can name,
And the best game you can name,
Is the good ol' hockey game.
RIP, eh.
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